How to Use manly in a Sentence

manly

adjective
  • He wasn't manly enough to fight.
  • He has a deep, manly voice.
  • On the right is a square bar with tall, manly, dark wood chairs.
    — Debbi Snook, cleveland.com, 9 Feb. 2018
  • And that’s the end of the manly story.
    — Hanif Abdurraqib, New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2025
  • There are those drunken, manly ones who want to get it.
    — David Searcy, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
  • But on top of it, have poison oak on my manly parts.
    — Outside Online, 18 Feb. 2026
  • The rest of the show is very manly, quite harsh and brutal.
    — James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 2 Mar. 2026
  • That is 212 pounds of manly priest.
    — Shania Russell, EW.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Just look at the view from up here—the rugged mountains, the manly rocks.
    — Douglas Watson, The New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2020
  • The myth of manly resilience is passed down from father to son.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Fall is the time for manly men doing manly things.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
  • But white women stayed home; they weren’t supposed to do manly work.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 27 Dec. 2022
  • Still, the young men’s fathers each felt their son had a manly duty to serve.
    — Natalia Abbakumova, Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2024
  • Of what avail is life why sigh and fret, When manly hopes are only born to fade?
    — Deneen L. Brown, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2017
  • This gives him time to see that his boyhood habits are, in fact, perfectly manly.
    — Brendan Tapley, Woman's Day, 1 Jan. 2017
  • Dean, of course, is terrified of heights and tries to act all manly while piddling in his pull ups.
    — Melissa Locker, Time, 19 June 2017
  • What makes men sometimes feel less manly in the company of others?
    — Randy Cordova, azcentral, 17 July 2019
  • Overall, this shampoo is made for men with a manly scent that’s sure to bring attention.
    — Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 May 2022
  • Surely any one of them would make a fine, manly dueling partner.
    — Claire Landsbaum, The Cut, 24 July 2017
  • This is the ideal scent for those who want a crisp, manly scent that remains pristine throughout the day.
    — Dallas News, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Stay strong, stay stylish, and above all, stay organized with this manly messenger!
    — Indianapolis Star, 21 June 2017
  • A lot of this is about making sure that products are really touted as manly.
    — The New Republic, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Is there anything uniquely manly about being a good father?
    — Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 19 June 2026
  • Its tacit assumption seems to be that the highest human virtues are manly ones.
    — Danny Heitman, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 July 2019
  • This call for manly men has been a fascist talking point since at least Mussolini.
    — Vulture, 22 Apr. 2022
  • In college and in some instances earlier, boxing was hailed as a manly sport.
    — John Havelock, Alaska Dispatch News, 17 Aug. 2017
  • Which, from Phil’s point-of-view, kind of throws a monkey wrench into their manly cowboy paradise.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 2 Sep. 2021
  • His growth in college and his growth on this campus just as a man, as a confident, manly, good person that’s all about team.
    — Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 15 Feb. 2026
  • Not before, of course, greeting the day by ripping the curtains open and treating the trees to a full-frontal view of his manly form.
    — Sandra Gonzalez, CNN, 12 Oct. 2023
  • What will the manly dictator do once in power, apart from smashing the Cathedral to bits?
    — Katherine Stewart, The New Republic, 10 Aug. 2023

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